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Copy and Paste

I don't use ctrl-c and ctrl-v for copy/paste. I prefer the seemly ancient way of Ctrl-Insert and Shift-Insert.
It allows for one handed quick navigation, selection, deletion and copy/pasting.
It also needs a real keyboard not one of those arty useless ones with half the keys missing :)

Its a standard and has existed for as long as I remember in Unix and Windows. Still in windows 10 as I have checked.

I forget what I press and can't explain it when asked so I went and wrote down the common if not all the ones I use....

copy and paste

Ctrl-Insert

Copy

Shift-Insert

Paste

Navigation

Ctrl-Right

move cursor to next word

Ctrl-Left

move cursor to start of current word

Ctrl-Up

move cursor to start of paragraph

Ctrl-Down

move cursor to end of paragraph

Ctrl-Home

Move cursor to top of document

Ctrl-End

Move cursor to bottom of document

Ctrl-PageUp

Move cursor to top of page

Ctrl-PageDown

Move cursor to bottom of page

Home

Move cursor to start of line

End

Move cursor to end of line

and the important selections
Just the navigations with shift really.

Shift-Ctrl-Right

Move cursor to next word and select all between

Shift-Ctrl-Left

Move cursor to start of word and select all between

Shift-Ctrl-Up

move cursor to start of paragraph and select all between

Shift-Ctrl-Down

move cursor to end of paragraph and select all between

Shift-Home

Move cursor to start of line and select all between

Shift-End

Move cursor to end of line and select all between

Shift-Ctrl-Home

Move cursor to top of document and select all between

Shift-Ctrl-End

Move cursor to bottom of document and select all between (in Excel it does to the end of valid data. very handy)

Shift-Ctrl-PageUp

Move cursor to top of page and select all between

Shift-Ctrl-PageDown

Move cursor to bottom of page and select all between

finally the deletes

Shift-Delete

Deletes whole line

Ctrl-Delete

Deletes to end of word

Ctrl-Backspace

Deletes to start of word

Don't have a ctrl-x cut equivalent but since the finger is there, a tap on delete key does the job.

The Up/Down ones tend to vary between programs so don't always work as explained above.